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BIO (edited) Robert Smith Todd was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and became clerk of the Kentucky State House of Delegates, a state assemblyman, and a state senator. He and his wife Eliza Parker had seven children of whom Mary was the fourth. Mary later would marry Abraham Lincoln. The attached picture is believed to be a painting of Robert Smith Todd. The other is a daguerreotype that looks somewhat like the painting. Historians say the daguerreotype probably is dated about 1845 and is of Robert Smith Todd. Robert Smith Todd (February 25, 1791 – July 17, 1849) was an American lawyer, soldier, banker, businessman, and politician who was the father of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Todd was born on February 25, 1791, in Lexington, a year before Kentucky became a state. He was the third of six sons born to Gen. Levi Todd (1756–1807) and Jane (née Briggs) Todd (1761–1800). A year after his mother's death in 1800, his father married again to Jane Holmes. Among th
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Robert Smith Todd
American lawyer, businessman, and politician (1791–1849)
Robert Smith Todd (February 25, 1791 – July 17, 1849) was an American lawyer, soldier, banker, businessman and politician. He was the father of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
Early life
Todd was born on February 25, 1791, in Lexington, a year before Kentucky became a state. He was the third of six sons born to Gen. Levi Todd (1756–1807) and Jane (née Briggs) Todd (1761–1800).[1] A year after his mother's death in 1800, his father remarried to Jane Holmes. Among the eleven children his father had between his two wives, was sister Jane Todd, who married congressman Daniel Breck.[2]
A source of much family pride, his father fought in the American Revolutionary War under the command of Brigadier General George Rogers Clark. After the War, his father and his uncles, John and Robert Todd, helped found present-day Lexington and became leading landowners and prominent statesmen in the state of Kentucky prior to its admission into the United States in 1792. Through his
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Robert Todd
Robert Todd may refer to:
- Robert Bentley Todd (1809–1860), Irish physician who described Todd's palsy
- Robert Todd (pioneer) (c. 1757–1814/20), Kentucky soldier and politician
- Robert C. Todd (c. 1809–1866), Canadian painter
- Robert H. Todd (born 1942), professor of mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University
- Robert Miles Todd, World War I flying ace
- Robert Smith Todd (1791–1849), father of U.S. first lady Mary Todd Lincoln
- Bob Todd (footballer) (born 1949), English footballer
- Bob Todd (baseball) (born 1948), college baseball coach
- Bobby Todd (1904–1980), German actor
- Robert Todd (filmmaker) (born 1963), American filmmaker
- Robert Asa Todd, California and Arizona journalist and member of the Los Angeles City Council
- Robert Barr Todd (1826–1901), justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
- Robert Todd (comics), a fictional character from DC Comics
- Bob Todd (Brian Todd, 1921–1992), English comedy actor
- Robert E. Tod, commissioner of Ellis Island, 1921–1923
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